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Boise State beat the midnight deadline Saturday to withdraw from the Mountain West Conference, officially keeping the Broncos on the path toward Big East affiliation in college football for the fall of 2013.

The Big West may have indirectly helped keep Big East football together for the short term by reversing its December decision to consider Boise State for membership in all other sports.

Interim Boise State athletic director Curt Apsey called Big West Conference commissioner Dennis Farrell Wednesday seeing if there would be interest in taking in the Broncos sports, including men's basketball, if the Broncos join the Big East in football.